Rhetoric is the art of persuasion through communications, either written or spoken. There are always two components to rhetoric – the rhetor and the audience. Rhetoric’s aim is to make comparisons, evoke emotions, censure rivals, and convince their audience to switch a point of view. Rhetoric takes the form of speech, debate, music, story, play, movie, poem; nearly anything that can be written or spoken … Continue reading Trivium Three: Rhetoric